The State of Agile Software Development in the Czech Republic: Preliminary Findings Indicate the Dominance of 'Abridged' Scrum
| Autor: | Alena Buchalcevova, Michal Mencik, Michal Dolezel |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Prague University of Economics and Business, Petr Doucek, Josef Basl, A Min Tjoa, Maria Raffai, Antonin Pavlicek, Katrin Detter, TC 8, WG 8.9 |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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Czech
Process management Computer science [SHS.INFO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Library and information sciences Sample (statistics) 02 engineering and technology Scrum practices Scrum 020204 information systems 0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineering Hybrid methods [INFO]Computer Science [cs] Product (category theory) Agile methods Agile practices Empirical evidence business.industry Software project management 020207 software engineering Agile method tailoring language.human_language Dominance (economics) language business Scrum variations Agile software development |
| Zdroj: | Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing 13th International Conference on Research and Practical Issues of Enterprise Information Systems (CONFENIS) 13th International Conference on Research and Practical Issues of Enterprise Information Systems (CONFENIS), Dec 2019, Prague, Czech Republic. pp.43-54, ⟨10.1007/978-3-030-37632-1_4⟩ Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing ISBN: 9783030376314 CONFENIS |
| DOI: | 10.1007/978-3-030-37632-1_4⟩ |
| Popis: | Part 2: Technical Architecture and Applications for EIS; International audience; This paper presents preliminary results from a survey focused on the state of agile method adoption in the Czech Republic. To this end, an initial survey sample (N = 120) was analyzed. Scrum is the most frequently used agile software development method, reported by 46.7% of respondents as the agile method of choice. However, the results indicate that Scrum seems to be introduced through cherry-picking of those practices that are quite easy to implement. Specifically, the only widely-spread Scrum practice is the maintenance of Product backlog. To the contrary, the teams are rarely cross-functional and the Scrum master role frequently absents. This suggests that in many organizations, Scrum might be invoked due to being a valuable “brand name”, rather than due to professionals’ subscribing to core Scrum values and assumptions. Our results contribute to the body of empirical knowledge on the state of agile software development initiatives. Our findings confirm the theoretical proposition that in the real world, the implementation of software development methods is often patchy and rarely done “by the book”. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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